TURKISH authorities could be about to make a move to extradite convicted Didim conman Kevin O’Kane to face fresh charges over a multi-million pound fraud.

Sunday Life, an Irish newspaper, reported of a court hearing in Belfast in which it was told that a judge in Turkey has asked for copies of statement O’Kane made to the fraud squad following his arrest.

O’Kane, 55, is due to be released from a four and a half year prison term at the end of April after he sentenced for fleecing investors of £4 million for a property on the Golden Beach Villas complex, near Imbat.

Sunday Life said it understood that no European Arrest Warrant had been issued by the Turkish authorities, but, quoting a legal source, claimed that if one was issued by April 27, O’Kane could face extradition proceedings.

The newspaper said that a Turkish judge had written to the Home Office concerning the case of O’Kane. This in turn was passed to the Crown’s solicitor’s office in Belfast and it is understood a court was told that a Turkish judge investigating the fraud has revisited the case with a view to prosecution.

O’Kane fled Turkey at the height of the publicity about the scam – first unearthed and reported by Voices Newspaper – even though he had been banned from leaving the country while the inquiry was launched.

He was apprehended in Ireland by local police and charged. At his trial, victims said O’Kane portrayed himself as a landowner, property developer and builder of the Golden Beach Villas, but he didn’t own anything.